Institute for Healthcare Improvement

In partnership with JAMA, this program is designed to bring clinical evidence into practice by connecting practitioners to authors of JAMA articles.

Use this self-assessment tool to assess how your organization is performing in relation to specific components of patient- and family-centered care, or as a basis for conversations about patient centeredness in the organization; developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), in collaboration with the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality.

This matrix cross-references 2009 Joint Commission Leadership Standards with the updated 2010 Joint Commission standards and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services standards; developed by St. Joseph Hospital (Orange, California, USA).

This two-day seminar provides participants with a set of tools to use and apply in their emergency departments (EDs) to reduce costs and improve patient throughput in the hospital. Participants will be guided through a series of topics critical for efficient ED operations, including how to optimize ED patient flow, operations, and service.

As part of IHI’s Collaborative on Improving Perinatal Care, Middlesex Hospital (Middletown, Connecticut, USA) sought to reduce harm in labor and delivery through measures designed to reduce variation in care, and implement interventions for patient-centered care.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world.

Oral decontamination of mechanically ventilated adults using chlorhexidine is associated with a lower risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia. The recommended chlorhexidine solution strength is 0.12%.

Leadership for whole system improvement requires specific leadership tasks and the knowledge of how to do them if leaders are to drive measured improvement across all conditions, all departments, and all offices in a health care system.

This two-day seminar provides participants with a set of tools to use and apply in their operating room to reduce costs and improve patient throughput in the hospital. Participants will be guided through a series of topics critical for efficient hospital operations.

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are one of the greatest sources of harm to hospitalized patients; ADEs can be significantly reduced by implementing proven safety measures.

This resource presents an overview of current "best practices" for creating conflict competent organizations, and includes a review of the literature and input from experienced professionals who provide training to health care organizations; developed by Emerging HealthCare Communities (Half Moon Bay, California, USA).

Led by experts in governance and quality, this program will help improve the capability of your organization's board to oversee quality and safety endeavors.

Led by the National Partnership for Women and Families, the Campaign for Better Care is a national mobilization effort to press for the changes to the US health care system that older adults with multiple health problems and their families urgently need. One way to get involved is for patients, family caregivers, and providers to share their stories.

Learn systems thinking as you move “patients” through an emergency department.

A resident tells a medical student to do a blood gas on a patient.  The student says, “I don’t know how.”  The resident is annoyed – and he says something to the student that he’ll regret for years.

When you’re caring for people with chronic or terminal disease, your job isn’t to provide a cure.  So what is your job?  How do you care for people who aren’t necessarily going to get well?  Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician and internationally recognized expert on end-of-life care, explains.